Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in a commentary in this regard:

The chief executive of south Korea convened a "national security council" meeting and underscored the need to "take countermeasure" and maintain "full readiness", describing the DPRK's step for bolstering up the deterrence for self-defence as "provocation" and "threat".

Meanwhile, he phoned the American and Japanese masters to beg for "sanctions and pressure against the north".

This is a manifestation of the inveterate repugnancy toward the DPRK and sinister intention to stifle it and a foolish act of dolts failing to know who grasps their destiny.

An extreme war crisis is created on the Korean peninsula and dark clouds of nuclear war are hanging over the heads of the fellow countrymen owing to the traitors who insult a nuclear treasured sword of the fellow countrymen as "threat" and praise a nuclear stick of the gangster-like U.S. imperialist as "nuclear umbrella".

The reckless moves of the puppet forces to realize a daydream of stifling the fellow countrymen, asking foreign forces for sanctions and pressure, are little short of ignorant self-ruin action inviting misfortune.

They should bear in mind that they can never avoid their miserable end with their masters if they persist in the sanctions and pressure against the DPRK in reliance upon the foreign forces.